𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐑𝐮𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐫 | 𝐑𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐕𝐚𝐧 𝐃𝐢𝐣𝐤

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Madison's POV

Grace's car with her brand new red P plates slapped on the front, pulls into my drive way. I jump in and throw my bag over the back.

I look at her to see her already staring at me with a huge grin.

"Drive" I tell her.

"I can't believe my best friend is dating Ruel- The Ruel!" She beams as she drives away from my house.

"I'm not dating him and you know it. Let's just hope no one at school has seen this account or knows who Ruel even is" i huff.

"Mads, babe, he's Ruel. Every teenage girl knows him" she laughs

"This is so bad" i whine and slide down in my seat.

"This is amazing, don't even worry" she wiggles her eyebrows and looks at me out of the corner of her eye.

We pull into the front gates and drive to the student parking zone and get a spot close to the front. We jump out and adjust our uniforms, then grab our bags and walk into the school.

So far so good. No one is looking weirdly at me, no one is whispering, nothing.

We get to our area and put our bags in our lockers,

"See, no ones being weird" Grace smiles

"Because those were year 7's. I highly doubt they follow a Ruel drama page" I raise my eyebrows at her.

"Oh trust me, they would be the ones running it if anything" she jokes

"What do we have first?"

"Uh, English I think" she opens her diary and looks at our schedule. We have all the same classes other than art; she has photography instead.

"Yep english then free period" we grab the books that we need and get out laptops, and then make our way to class.

Arriving outside the classroom, most of the girls in our class were already there. They go quiet as we approach, oh no.

I give them a small smile then turn to face Grace,

"They fucking know" I whisper

"Okay, let them talk. They're just jealous" she shrugs

"Jealous of what? There's nothing to be jealous of" I chuckle

"Well they don't know that it's not true" she smirks

"Mads!" Our friend Emma runs up to us with her books clutched to her chest.

"What the fuck!" She squeals excitedly

"Em, shut up" I hush her

"Oh, is it on the DL" she nudges me with a smirk

"Yep, very secret, they don't want anyone knowing" Grace butts in

"But literally everyone knows" Emma laughs

"Well now they do thanks to someone exposing them" Grace says

The teacher let's us in and we all take our seats.

Grace, Emma and I sit in the middle row and get ready for the boring lesson.

"Alright, so today we're just going over the notes from the movie we watched last lesson. This will be individual work, and you may watch over the movie again if you need. Use this lesson wisely as we have an assessment coming up on this topic" Mrs Anderson tells us.

"I'm using this lesson to educate you on your boyfriend" Grace whispers to me as she pulls out her laptop.

"Can we at least go and sit on the floor or somewhere where no one can see what we're doing?" I ask, slightly nodding my head in the direction of the girls behind us.

Her hand shoots up, "Mrs Anderson, may Madison and I sit on the floor to watch the movie again?" She asks.

"Okay, but make sure you're actually watching it, I'll be coming around to check on you two"

We grab our things and move to the floor, leaving Emma to actually do her work- she's the smart one.

"Okay, I'm going to tell you everything you need to know" she grins and opens google

She types in Ruel Van Dijk and instantly, photos of a brunette boy our age pop up.

"How tall is he oh my god" i gape at a photo of him standing next to a man. He's about a head and a bit taller than him, wow.

"He's 6'3" Grace answers a bit too quickly.

"Jeez" I mumble and continue to look at the photos.

"You're what? 5'3? That's perfect"

"Girls, quiet please" Mrs Anderson warns us

I take out my phone and place it on my laptop to try and hide the fact that I'm on my phone. I go to Instagram and see that I have even more follow requests than the amount I had this morning when I checked. I still haven't accepted any though. 

"Madison" someone quietly calls. I look up to see non other than Sophia Jenkins- the biggest bitch in my year group.

"Yes?" I ask

"Is it true!" She exclaims excitedly as she holds out her phone to show me something. It's the stupid drama page.

"No, it's not true" I tell her then look back at my laptop ignoring her.

"They posted more about you on the drama page" Grace tells me

"Give me your phone" I take her phone out of her hand and place it next to my own on my laptop. I scroll through the drama page and lo and behold, there were about 10 more posts about me,

'I saw her shopping with Coco in Bondi the other day'

"Who's Coco?" I ask Grace

"She's his sister. Everyone likes her more than they like Ruel" she giggles

"I need more information about him"

"He's from Sydney, he's 17, he's a singer- obviously, he's gorgeous, he's tall, he's dreamy-"

"Okay okay, I got it" I cut her off.

'This is our mysterious girl,'

"Ew they used that photo of me" I cringe.

I clicked on the comments,

'She's so pretty, I get why Ruel likes her'

'She doesn't look like the kind of girl Ruel would date'

The comments weren't too bad which I'm happy about, but he doesn't like me. He doesn't even know me. I don't know him.